Christoph Waltz (left) who won the Oscar award for Best Supporting actor plays Dr King Schultz, a bounty hunter who teams with Django (Jamie Foxx) ...

Django (Jamie Foxx) with Dr King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) on a quest to save Django wife.

Christoph Waltz (Dr. King Schultz) and Jamie Foxx (Django) in a still from Django Unchained.

Django (Jamie Foxx) with Amerigo Vessepi played by Franco Nero (who played Django in the original 1966 film and its 1987 sequel) in a still ...

Leonardo DiCaprio as the heartless Calvin Candie in a still from Django Unchained.

Django Unchained director Quentin Tarantino who won Oscar for Best Original Screenplay has also played a role in the film as an employee at The ...

Quentin Tarantino's violent slavery revenge fantasy, Django Unchained, will be released in China in May, its U.S. distributors said on Friday, and a Hollywood source said additional cuts had been made after Chinese authorities halted the film's initial roll out this month.

The movie was pulled from theaters in China minutes into its debut screenings on April 11 for technical reasons, according to a Shanghai movie theater official. The Chinese government censors all movies before they can be released. Scenes that contain nudity, politically sensitive issues, as well as extreme levels of violence, must be editedout before the film receives a go-ahead from the authorities.

"We are delighted that audiences throughout China will be able to experience Django Unchained beginning Sunday, May 12th. There is tremendous excitement, anticipation and awareness for the film and we thank the local authorities for quickly resolving this issue," Columbia Pictures said in a statement. Columbia declined to comment on what changes, if any, had been made or why the movie, the first work by Tarantino to be shown in the increasingly important Chinese film market, was pulled from movie theaters in China earlier this month.

Anticipation was high for the April opening of Django because of reports that it would have only minor cuts by Chinese censors, despite Tarantino's reputation for violence.When its was pulled from movie theaters, Chinese media quoted industry insiders as saying the cancellation was probably due to some nudity that may have escaped initial attention. A Hollywood source close to the film said on Friday that additional cuts had been made for the newly approved Chinese version but declined to elaborate on what they were.

The film stars Jamie Foxx as a slave-turned-bounty-hunter who wreaks revenge on slave plantation owners while on a mission to free his wife. It features Tarantino's trademark style of extensive graphic violence, along with dark humor, and in one scene Foxx's character is strung upside down wearing only a skimpy cloth. China has become the largest international market for Hollywood films, with its box office takings for U.S. films growing by 36 percent in 2012, according to a Motion Picture Association of America report in March.

Django Unchained, won two Oscars in February for Christoph Waltz's supporting actor turn as a dentist who became a bounty hunter, and for Tarantino's screenplay. Columbia Pictures is a unit of Sony Entertainment.